Small business receives ticket for flying American flag
Former President Donald Trump claimed he would be exonerated of all charges listed in the Georgia indictment next week after he releases a “detailed” report on the alleged voter fraud in the state during the 2020 election. Trump announced that he would hold a press briefing on the report on Monday in Bedminster, New Jersey,…
The head of the United Nations’ atomic agency, Rafael Mariano Grossi, conducted a tour of Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant on Wednesday and expressed satisfaction with a controversial plan to release treated radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean. Grossi observed the facilities where the water will be treated and diluted with seawater before being released…
Taiwan is caught in the middle of a dangerous love triangle. Last week Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen was welcomed to New York – now she’s held a face-to-face meeting in California with the speaker of the US House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy. Supporters waved Taiwan flags; after the two politicians entered the Ronald Reagan Presidential…
The US expects “accountability and legal prosecution” in response to settler violence across the West Bank. The United States called for Israel to ensure accountability for the settler rampage against Palestinians, condemned the terror attack at a West Bank gas station and slammed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s announcement that he planned to build 1,000 new…
Israel’s military says it responded with artillery fire after a rocket was launched from southern Lebanon. A statement said the rocket “exploded adjacent to the Blue Line in Israeli territory”, referring to the UN-demarcated frontier between the states. Lebanon’s state news agency reported that more than 15 Israeli shells had hit the outskirts of the…
The move comes after the bank announced last month that it was pausing the hikes. ANKARA — Turkey’s Central Bank, in a unexpected move, hiked interest rates Thursday by another 500 basis points, from 45% to 50%. The monetary policy committee cited a “higher than expected” surge in the country’s year-on-year inflation last month, which hit almost 70%. The…